While developers from a startling number of countries can post apps to the Google Play Store for users around the world to download, setting up the infrastructure for these developers to sell paid apps - and more importantly, to get paid for their apps - isn't quite so widespread. Today Google is opening up Google Wallet Merchant registration to eight more countries, allowing developers in those countries to get paid in their local currency.

Today's expansion brings the number of countries that Google supports with Wallet Merchant and thus paid app publishing to 45, out of 150 countries that can upload free apps. Note: this isn't the same as the countries where users can pay for apps - there are currently 134 countries where end users can buy apps, including all eight above.